Vector Boson Production at Hadron Colliders: A Fully Exclusive QCD Calculation at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

Journal Article · Fri Aug 21 04:00:00 UTC 2009 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.103.082001· OSTI ID:21364617

Catani, Stefano; Ferrera, Giancarlo; Grazzini, Massimiliano ^[1]; Cieri, Leandro; Florian, Daniel de ^[2]

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1. INFN, Sezione di Firenze and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence (Italy)
2. Departamento de Fisica, FCEYN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, (1428) Pabellon 1 Ciudad Universitaria, Capital Federal (Argentina)

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of W and Z bosons in hadron collisions. We present a fully exclusive calculation up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. To perform this NNLO computation, we use a recently proposed version of the subtraction formalism. The calculation includes the gamma-Z interference, finite-width effects, the leptonic decay of the vector bosons, and the corresponding spin correlations. Our calculation is implemented in a parton level Monte Carlo program. The program allows the user to apply arbitrary kinematical cuts on the final-state leptons and the associated jet activity and to compute the corresponding distributions in the form of bin histograms. We show selected numerical results at the Fermilab Tevatron and the LHC.

• OSTI ID: 21364617
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 103; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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